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Does anybody knows if Native Tongue or other of her novels have been put in film? Would you recommend any other related film? Thanks in advance.

You might all have heard about this by now but Dr. Elgin passed away in January. I just now found out about it; I had been checking up on her maybe every six months or so, hoping for an update. Someone on my Facebook had asked about her verbal self-defense book so I remembered to check again.

Obituary on io9

Rest in power, sister.

My blog is Wil Sha on tumblr. I am learning Láadan. I am glad to be apart of this community. I also go by Athid.
Here's a simple poem I wrote in Láadan:
Bíi ril meshahina melaya wáa. Bíi ril medóolon meleyi wáa. Bíi ril meén meénan i zhe ne wáa. Roses are red, Violets are blue. Sugar is sweet and as are you.

Hello,

I am interrested in constructed languages like Solresol and find Láadan especially appealing because it sounds like Navajo. Another reason is that it's strange that it never became as famous as Esperanto. That makes it interresting for me because not everyone has heard about Láadan.
I'm from Germany.

Upon hearing what has happened to Dr. Elgin, I'm suddenly not wanting to let go of the community. No, I don't know why. Yes, I know it's weird. >_< But I'm also getting more interested in feminist issues than I have in a long time, especially now with the mess going on in politics. This language is a little piece of the movement's history, most of the movement's not even aware of it, and I'm feeling a bit protective.

Anyway. There's your anti-flounce for the day, I suppose. :)

Hi,

I am new to Laadan (have read about it a couple years ago) and to this community (joined today).
Hope it does not get erased...

Can't find the book nowhere. Nor in libraries (tried some) nor in bookstores, nor in the web, nor in BitTorrent.

Does anybody got a copy?

Thanks in advance.

I have been inactive on LiveJournal for a very long time now. Over the years I have divested myself of all the communities I was moderating. This one community is left because our Ms. Elgin is here and the language in question is her baby and I didn't want to make it go away if she was still using it.

I tried adding her as moderator in the account settings but I don't think she wanted it; either that, or she's been busy, or she didn't know what to do in response.

So if anyone else is interested, say the word. I'll try and check in soon to see if anyone has responded. I think there's only one of you I wouldn't hand it off to but I'm open otherwise. (Not drama-stirring, just being honest, and we need make no more out of it than that.)

If no one responds, I will delete anyway. There's no point in this being here if there will be zero participation. At that point deletion is the only way to get it off my account.

Thanks for understanding.

Not sure if I'm missing something here - am I right in thinking the only way to tell if you're dealing with a plural object is if there's an adjective involved? 

e.g. Bíi yod le yuth wa = I eat the fruit or fruits
but Bíi yod le woliyen woyuth wa = I eat the green fruit.  cf. Bíi yod le mewoliyen woyuth wa - I eat the green fruits.

Is this right?  It seems odd to have no plural noun form (though I know of other languages where that's the case), but more odd to have the plural indicated at some times and not others.  Or is there some other way of marking it that I haven't got to in the lessons yet...?

Wil sha, everyone!

I'm sorry I've been absent so long. (The holidays, then I took a short course in Mandarin Chinese.) I finally finished Native Tongue (and checked out The Judas Rose to start tomorrow) and there was one line I really loved from it. One of the women makes a statement and then asks Nazareth, isn't that true? And Nazareth replies,

"As true as water. As true as light."

I admit I haven't even tried the grammar for this one yet. I'm still on Amberwind's Lesson #2, trying to get the vocabulary in my head. Does anyone have a translation? I love this line so much.

Wil sha.

My given name is Amy, but I transliterated it to Emi on the Láadan Language site. Here, though, I transliterated (and altered a little because I like the sound better) my Japanese name, Sanae, into Zhanáhe. It means "early seedling." I love different names and have collected a lot of them for myself over the years. Please feel free to call me by any of these names!

I hope I can keep up with this. I hope you all join me too and share your experiences!

I, like many of us, have suffered olob (trauma) in my life. If-- I should say, when-- I discuss it, I will put it behind a cut with a trigger warning. I sincerely do not want to add to anyone's pain more than I add to her harmony...

I might also pitch Encodings, or ask if anyone knows words for certain concepts. I hope together we can keep Láadan alive and growing!

The one sentence that keeps coming into my mind from Amberwind's lesson #2 is:

Bíi áya hena wa.
(The sibling is beautiful.)

I don't have any hena (siblings by blood). But I hope you will all become my héena (siblings of the heart) in Láadan. And you are all áya.

And for those who celebrate or mark the turning of the year, my attempts at a wish for you:
Wil othel minararoth.
or maybe
Wil othel shiniledaleweman.

wil = let there be
othel = to be blessed, holy
minararoth = mina (move) + ra (not) + roth (sun)
shiniledaleweman = shiniledal (middle) + [e] + weman (winter)

Are there words for the solstice that I'm not finding? Do I have the order wrong on any of these? I couldn't find a word for "long" to make "longest night," and I couldn't find a word for "stand still" as in solstice, just "still, calm" as in a quiet pond-- or even "pause." Do any of you have creative seasonal greetings?